Circle of women : [electronic resource] an anthology of contemporary western women writers / edited by Kim Barnes and Mary Clearman Blew.

Sow in the river / Mary C. Blew -- Woodcutting on Lost Mountain / Tess Gallagher -- Secret of cartwheels / Patricia Henley -- Iona Moon / Melanie Rae Thon -- When I was ten, at night ; Luck / Mary Ann Waters -- Just rewards ; Changing / Debra Earling -- From 'Housekeeping' / Marilynne Robinson -- Rules ; Songs were horses I rode ; They keep their story ; For Mary, on the Snake / Ripley Schemm -- Visiting the Hutterites / Irene Wanner -- Scale / Diane Raptosh -- From 'Missing you' / Inez Petersen -- From 'Jailing of Cecilia Capture' / Janet C. Hale -- In the hellgate wind / Madeline DeFrees --

Difference in effects of temperature ; Depending on geographical location ; East or west of the Continental Divide ; A letter / Dennice Scanlon -- It's come to this / Annick Smith -- From 'Jump-off creek' / Molly Gloss -- Bones / Teresa Jordan -- Leaving home ; What comes of winter ; At the Stockman Bar, where the men fall in love and the women just fall / Judy Blunt -- From 'Rain or shine: a family memoir / Cyra McFadden -- Entering Smoot, Wyoming, pop. 239 / Dixie Partridge -- Seasons / Ruth McLaughin -- Cry ; Tracks ; Sawyer's wife / Sandra Alcosser -- Fires / Christina Adam --

In my next life / Pam Houston -- Red Rock ceremonies ; Claiming lives ; Moving day at the widow Cain's / Anita Endrezze -- Island / Gretel Ehrlich -- Force of one voice ; Legend in a small town / Neidy Messer -- From 'Relative distances' / Victoria Jenkins -- Other side of fire / Leslie Ryan -- Coyote is loping across the water / Mary Golden -- Hunsaker blood / Pauline Mortenson -- How I came West, and why I stayed / Alison Baker -- From 'Rima in the weeds' / Deidre McNamer -- Circle of women ; Calling the coyotes in ; Smell of rain / Kim Barnes -- Clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams.

An anthology of short stories examining Western myths and traditions through the eyes of women. They usual settings: ranches, saloons, rodeos and the open range.

Also issued online.